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Look who's rewriting history now
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Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:46:37 GMT
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You paying attention, Stefan? Your optimism and love of country is misplaced
when it comes to the schmuck living in the White House.
Look who’s rewriting history now
http://www.sunspot.net/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=bal-op.witcover.18jul18§ion=/printstory
WASHINGTON -- While the world continues to parse President Bush’s 16 little
words in his State of the Union message on Iraq’s alleged try to buy nuclear
fuel in Africa, it seems to have ignored his latest contribution to, as he likes
to say, “revisionist history.”
In an exchange with reporters the other day after the White House visit of U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the president offered this to explain why he
invaded Iraq:
“The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the
answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and
he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided
to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was
not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”
What? Unless memory fails, Mr. Hussein did let the weapons inspectors in, and
they had to be withdrawn for their own safety when Mr. Bush decided to bypass
them and the U.N. Security Council and proceed with his invasion of Iraq.
Surprisingly, neither The New York Times nor many other newspapers paid any
attention to this colossal misstatement. The Washington Post, in a Page One
story focusing on the faulty intelligence controversy, did note that Mr. Bush
had said he had given the Iraqi dictator “a chance to allow the inspectors in,
and he wouldn’t let them in.”
Again, Shrub is the MOST irresponsible prsident we have ever had. With Shrub
it is Lie after lie after lie after lie. If Oval Office Oral is cause for
impeachment, then I’d have to think that Shrub’s continual reworking of the
facts of reality would surely be cause for at least some investigation.
Instead, every investigation about these endless screw-ups are being deep sixed
by those in power (i.e. a republican held congress).
Passing It Along
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0718-08.htm
Here’s another sentence in George Bush’s State of the Union address that wasn’t
true: “We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems
to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations.”
Shrub’s middle name must be “pass the buck.”
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I'm not an optimist, I'm just giving Bush the benefit of the doubt. He's pretty much sol on his own account though now... I still think though Saddam needed to be removed. There are plenty of hostile govts in need of removing, but might as (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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